SUMMARY:

• Senior Quality Assurance Tester/Team Lead/Scrum Master with 10+ years experience developing strategic Test Strategy Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Reports.
• Excellent communication skills with staff and clients, providing status reports and testing updates.
• Extensive experience managing projects.
• Responsible for test plans, resources, and process improvements.
• Proficient in manual and some automated testing client/server and web - based applications with expertise in Smoke, Unit, Functionality, Regression, Stress, Installation, Security, Embedded Software testing and End-to-End Testing in Agile, Informal and Waterfall methodologies.
• Excellent understanding of the SDLC from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Extensive experience supporting multiple projects under tight deadlines, and identifying risks throughout.
• Highly motivated, self-starter, flexible to ever-changing environments and testing needs, able to work both independently and as a team member.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Black box, White box
• Waterfall, Agile methodology (Scrum and Kanban)
• Test Environment set-up
• Ruby, XML, SQL, TOAD
• Quality Center (Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects)
• Rational Robot, Automate 6, Selenium, Ruby on Rails, Fitness, Aspect
• Limited Network configuration
• SharePoint, Crystal Reports, Turnover, Subversion, TFS
• Jira, Bugzilla, BugTracker
• Ghost, KillDisk, Acronis
• MS Office, MS Project, SmartSheet
• IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Ensure 2 software development teams are fully functional and productive
• Enable close cooperation across teams, local and nation wide
• Remove barriers while empowering the teams to resolve issues internally
• Shield the team from external interferences
• Ensure the process is followed, including issuing invitations to daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint planning
• Facilitates the daily scrums

Confidential

Quality Assurance/ScrumMaster

Responsibilities:

• Created and supported an iteration based testing platform
• Created test cases for each development unit (user story)
• Reviewed test cases with developers
• Executed test cases
• Managed bug prioritization, testing and acceptance
• Implementation of a regression-testing platform for both Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook based products.
• Created step by step regression test cases
• Researched mail based automated testing options
• Implemented Scrum/Agile process.
• Trained the team on backlog scrubbing, the Scrum roles
• Created the iteration schedule, 2 week iterations with code freezes on the 2nd Wednesday, and user acceptance the last day of the iteration
• Introduced the Scrummie tool to track task progress, with a distributed team standups needed to be virtual
• Organized the backlog scrubbing, planning, review, and retrospective meetings
• Developed and maintained User, System Administration, and Installation Guides for the Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook products

Confidential

Quality Assurance/ScrumMaster

Responsibilities:

• Created and supported a iteration based testing platform
• Created test cases for user stories
• Executed test cases
• Responsible for user acceptance of development effort
• Trained new team members
• Ran and updated SQL test scripts
• SQL scripts were used to create test data and reset data to retest code using existing data
• Streamlined the Scrum/Agile process
• Created test cases for each development unit (user story)
• Facilitated kickoff meetings, story card review meetings, planning meetings, retrospectives
• Iteration Status Reporting to the Product Owners, Vice President of the Project Management Office and Vice President of Developer

Confidential

Quality Assurance/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of a testing platform for an established web application
• Implementation of a regression testing platform for web and windows applications
• Regression testing script creation
• Reduced issues from over 300 to 100 in 9 months
• New development testing and defect documentation
• Requirements gathering, discussing questions, getting business clarification
• 3rd party software evaluation team lead
• Developed and maintained automated testing scripts
• Created script libraries in Ruby, then using a homegrown application (Aspect)

Confidential

Validation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Project Responsibilities (both commissioning and validation):
• Protocol (Test Script) Development and Execution
• Final Report Generation and Final Package Preparation
• Specification Development
• User Requirements Development
• User Guide/Training Manual Development
• Creation and approval of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s)
• Project Experience (computer software, Confidential, equipment, and temperature mapping)
• Team member: duties include creation, review, and execution of validation packages in the areas of Sterile Filling (Finished Products and Mammalian Cell Processing software), Tank Sterilization Booths, the Advanced Sterilization Technology Facility, Manufacturing Line, Non-Aseptic Filling, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Facility (Fermentation).
• Project Leader: duties include managing project schedule, timeline, and budget for the validation end of projects.
• Safety Coordinator: duties include maintaining safety records for the local office, contact point for OSHA and MIOSHA
• Internal Quality Assurance for Kalamazoo Process Automation Shared Service validation projects